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and ben covers disinformation, extremism, and the internet. it s kind of a standard workday for ben, kind of a dark day. but this new weird and increasingly dangerous trend of people pushing sheep dip, cattle dewormer, horse dewormer, scabies cream, ivermectin, as if it is a miracle cure for covid, it is unfortunately hitting all of ben collins beats these days. one of the big groups pushing this disinformation about this drug is a pro-trump anti-vaxx group called american front line doctors. their founder was arrested after allegedly participating in the insurrection at the capitol on january 6. the misinformation around it and the promotion of it turns out to be a lot bigger online, particularly in gigantic facebook groups i had no idea existed. but they have created a whole
industry got to self-certify that the things they called blowout preventers would actually prevent blowouts even if they didn t. it s a brand name and the shorthand for blowout preventers is just blow. are the companies, speaking of deep, are they in deep sheep dip or will they do like exxon valdez? i think bp is still pretty deep in it. they ve gone on record saying they re going to cover all the costs, not, you know, that includes economic losses that result from this. i mean, we still haven t stopped this oil from spilling out. i was op a call with the white house and administration advi r advisors, this could take weeks, it could take months. we don t know what the total bill will be. bp could still be on the hook at end of the day and conceivably might not survive. halliburton seems to always survive. i don t know why that is. transocean, the company that